Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-16
RAILROAD BOND PETITION.

To the Honorable Board of COUNTY Com
nliSSiOne1S of the County Of Barrier, an
the State Of KdnsGS:
The undersigned, being more than two-ffths
OF the resident taxpayers of Lake City town
ship, of the county of Barber in the state OF
Kansas, respectfully pray your honorable body
TO submit to the qualified electors of said town
ship, proposition to subscribe Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars to the capital stock of the
Kansas and Panhandle Railroad Company a
corporation created and existing under and by
virtue of the laws of the state of Kansas, which
proposes to construct Il line of railroad into
and through said township, and that in pay
ment for said subscription of said stock. bonds
of said township shall be issued in sums OF
One Thousand Dollars each. payable in Thirty
Years from date of issue, with interest paya-
bic semi-annually, at the rate of per cent. per
annum, on the first day OF January and the
first day of July. of each and every year, until
said principal shall become due; and said
bonds shall have attached thereto, scmi-au-
nual interest coupons; and the said bonds,
(both principal and interestO stall be payable
At the fiscal agency or the state of Kansas, in
the city of New York, i'll the state of New
York.
And the conditions on which said subscrip-
ton to the capital stock shall be made, are,
that the said Railroad Company shall construct
and operate and maintain said railroad of
standard gauge, from some point on the north
or east side of said township, and running
thence through said township, and have the
same in operation on or before the 3lst day of
December, a. d., 1887; and erect and maintain
dcpots aud stations in said toNnsh in. as fol-
lows, to-wit: Within one-half ga mile of the
crossing of Main and Seminary streets, in the
town of Lake City.
And we further pray that you order Special
Election, to be held i'll said township. IN pur-
suance of chapter lO1 of the laws of 1876. and
the acts of the legislature of the state of Kan
sas amcndatory thereof, to vote upon the
question of subscribing for said stock. ~
aforesaid. And the form of the ballots to be
used at such election, and fer such PROPOSE
ton DC:
For Subscription to Stock of tho Kansas
and Panhandle Railroad COMPANY"
And those against such proposition to he:
Against Subscription to Stock OF the Kansas
and Panhandle Railroad Company"
And whereas said Board OF County Commits
siOners have examined said petition and IL hav-
ing been shown to the satisfaction of said
Board that the said petition has been signed 10y
more than two-fitths of the resident tax-pay-
ers iii said township. aud is in the form pre-
scribed 10y law and is i'm all respects regular and
legal, and said Board SO finds and declares:
Now, therefore,. pursuant to the prayer of said
petition, and the statutes i'm such case made
and provided, II l. hereby ordered 10y the Board
of County Commissioners Of said county, that
Special Election be- held AZ the usual voting
places in said TownshiD, on
WEDNESDAY, THE Esd DAY OF FEBRU AIRY,
\. D., 1887, Mt which said Election the
proposition set forth III the hereinbefore
recited petition, which petition. with the
signatures thereto omitted, il hereby made
u part of this order. shall be submitted TO the
legally qualified voters OF said township. for
And il is further ordered. by said Board of
County Commissioners, that the Sheriff of said
county make due proclamation to the voters of
said township of the holding of said Election
NJ the time and places aforesaid. by publishing
the same for thirty DAYS or more, next pre-
ceding the day OF holding said Election, in
some newspaper published IN said county, and
having general circulation in said township,
and that in said proclamation said Sheriff set
forth the above aud foregoing order and recite
said petition therein.
Witness whereof. undersigned
chairman and members of the Board Of Coun-
~ Commissioners, of the County of Barber,
as chairman and members aforesaid, mt the
County Seat of said County, this 18th day of
January, y. ID. 1887.
w. W. Cook, Chairman,
JOHN MCGRATH, Commissioner,
j. ID. FLEMING, Commissioner.
As attest, my signature and Seal of said
Barber County. hereto affixed this 18th day
lsEALi ROBERT J. TALIAFERRo,
County Clerk of Barber, County, State OF
Now therefore, l, Charles d. Nelson. Sheriff
of Barber County, Kansas, under and by vir
ture of the foregoing order of the Board of
County Commissioners of said County, and the
authority in me vested 10y law as such Sheriff
do, hereby proclaim and make known that
there will be held Special Election of the
qualified voters of Lake City Township in said
County, at the usual voting places in said
Township on Wednesday, the I'D day of Feb
ruary, a. ID. 1857, upon the proposition as SET
forth in the said order of said Board of County
Commissioners of said County of Barber Kan.
| sas. and in the manner and form set forth and
| that said Election will be held, the returns
made and the result asccrtained i'm the same
manner as is provided by law for general Elec-
| tions.
Done at my Office IN the City of Medicine
/ Lodge. in said County of Barber this 18th day
OF January, A. ID. 1887.
| CHARLES, ID. NELSON,
Sheriff of Barber County, Kans.
| By WN. LINDSEY.
| Under Sheriff.